The Works of Christopher Marlowe - Anniina Jokinen

Life of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Before Marlowe, blank verse had not been the accepted verse form for drama. Christopher Marlowe. SHARE Critical Essays Style — Marlowe's Mighty Line.

Life of Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance English playwright and poet.

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593): Marlowe was indisputably the foremost English playwright preceding Shakespeare. The son of a cobbler, Marlowe excelled at Cambridge and became well known in London during a relatively short-lived literary career between 1587 and his death in 1593 in a tavern brawl. He penned seven surviving plays, among which and stand above the rest. His influence on Shakespeare seems as personal as it was professional; Shakespeare pays tribute to him in when Rosalind quotes a line from Marlowe's unfinished poem, .